Philip Connors

Philip Connors was born in Iowa and grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota. He attended the University of Montana, and then worked for several years as an editor at The Wall Street Journal. In 2002 he left the paper for a seasonal job with the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico. His writing has appeared in Harper's, the London Review of Books, The Nation and the Paris Review, amongst other publications. He lives in southern New Mexico with his wife and their dog